Daily Digest: Immense Rage

Become Immense and Temur Battle Rage are a couple of cards from Khans of Tarkir block that lead to some quick kills. Together, they will one-shot any opponent, even if they're still at a relatively high life total.

The real combo is Death's Shadow with either of them, as a Become Immense while you're at one life will be good for eighteen damage, and a Temur Battle Rage when you're at three life will be twenty points of trampling double strike damage.

The sideboard looks kind of rough, but it's difficult to sideboard in a deck like this. You're trying to assemble a certain amount of resources to combo kill your opponent, so any cards you bring in dilute your deck overall. I think Thoughtseize is a good start and Phyrexian Unlife might be great against other fast decks, but past that, what do you really need? Leyline of Sanctity might be nice against opposing Thoughtseizes and Liliana of the Veils, so you could try that.

Sideboard

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Gerry Thompson is a well-regarded Constructed specialist, deck-tuner, long-time pro, and SCG Tour end boss. He has eleven Grand Prix Top 8s with two wins and seven SCG Invitational Top 8s with two wins. He won Pro Tour Amonkhet and made the Top 8 of Pro Tour Gatecrash. Many records on the SCG Tour were first set by him.